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Episodes
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Great passion makes the impossible happen.
In this episode, Dr. Jamie Marich joins Traci on the podcast to talk about trauma.
Jamie’s passion for helping trauma victims is profoundly personal. Listen in, as Dr. Marich shares her personal story, different techniques that can be used when treating trauma, and tips that we all can apply in our day to day lives.
Dr. Jamie Marich describes herself as a facilitator of transformative experiences. A clinical trauma specialist, expressive artist, writer, yogini, performer, short filmmaker, Reiki master, and recovery advocate, she unites all of these elements in her mission to inspire healing in others. She began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music while freelancing with other projects. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice in her home base of Warren, OH. Jamie is the author of seven books on trauma recovery and healing, with many more projects in the works.
Have you been wanting to learn more about trauma, but you have not found resources that you resonate with? Jamie's books have been released and are step by step guides for working with your own healing.
Trauma and the 12 Steps: a Trauma Responsive Workbook
Trauma and the 12 Steps: Daily Meditations and Reflections
were updated and released this September.
Trauma and the 12 Steps, Revised and Expanded: An Inclusive Guide to Enhancing Recovery was revised and expanded this summer.
All worth checking out.
Episode Milestone
[03:18] Dr. Marich's mission
[05:00] What is Trauma?
[07:19] What is the legacy that trauma leaves if we're not getting the right information about trauma?
[11:38] When can getting therapy exacerbate trauma?
[16:05] The source of Dr. Marich’s passion for Trauma: Jamie’s story
[25:05] What are best practices for working with folks with trauma?
[29:31] Accountability tips for helping you keep your mindfulness practice up.
[40:22] Traci’s soapbox moment
Resources Mentioned:
Standout Quotes from the Episode:
- “What may seem like a small wound on the outside can actually be something quite significant. “ [06:27]
- “To truly eradicate and heal the PTSD or any other trauma-related disorder, you have to do work, like therapeutic work.” [14:47]
- “Mindfulness is not about making the wave stop. It's about learning how to surf.” [29:06]
- “Consistency is better for the brain than inconsistency.” [30:32]
- “Lifestyle as the things we end up doing as a response to our own inferiority.” [36:22]
- “I do believe healing, our trauma is the most radical act we can engage in.” [41:39]
- “If wounds remain untreated, they bleed, and we bleed all over people as a result.”[43:05]
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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Are you a good listener?
Many of us think we are good listeners, but maybe, just maybe, we are not as hot at listening as we think we are. Today, Dr. Guy Itzchakov joins Traci Ruble on the podcast to talk about the subtle art of listening.
Doctor Itzchakov is an assistant professor at the University of Haifa and the Department of Human Services and obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto at the Rotman School of Management. His focal research has been on the effects of high quality listening on facilitating a change in the speaker’s emotions, cognition, and behavior. Dr. Itzchakov is also research advisor to Sidewalk Talk.
Listen in as Dr. Itzchakovs shares tips on listening you can use, right now, today, in your own life.
Episode Milestone
[03:05] How Traci and Dr. Guy met
[05:14] How Dr. Guy got into listening
[o6:15] The boomerang effect
[12:41] Why don’t we listen more?
[13:41] The enemies of listening
[19:19] How does culture affect listening?
[27:04] Ingredients to good listening
[32:58] Ways of conveying understanding to the speaker
[39:01] Does listening contribute to people’s health?
[44:48] Dr. Guy’s wish
Resources Mentioned:
Standout Quotes from the Episode:
- “When someone listens to us, we feel less anxious, because we don’t care anymore, how we look when we say the things we say.” [08:35]
- “Research is important to the extent that you can make a difference with it.” [10:55]
- “Listening is key to the change that we need to make, and we are asked to make in our society” [11:35]
- “If you listen well, you lose dominance, and you gain prestige.” [17:47]
- “Listening will reduce the speaker’s anxiety, both state anxiety and social anxiety, which is an indicator of wellbeing.” [39:12]
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Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
One in two children in America has either a physical or a mental health issue. This is a serious problem. Even though that’s a statistic relevant to America, this is a global issue. Children are also displaying a ton of physical problems, everything from obesity to asthma, eczema, and other conditions.
In this episode, Traci will have an informative discussion around children’s mental health with Dr. Roseann Capanna Hodge. She is the founder and director of Dr. Roseanne and Associates, and she’s the originator of the 360-degree reboot intensive therapies program. She works with kids, teens, and parents in Richfield in Newtown, Connecticut. She’s co-authored a book called ‘The Brain Under Attack’, a resource guide about pan’s pandas. She’s an expert in several areas, including anxiety-related disorders, ADHD, autism, executive functioning, dyslexia, and other learning disabilities.
Dr. Roseann shares her wisdom with us. Listen in.
Episode Milestone
[00:49] Introducing the episode’s guest
[02:43] What inspired Dr. Roseann to work with kids?
[04:04] The increase in the number of children with mental health in America
[11:42] What can we do in our day to day life to help children with mental health
[19:33] OCD treatment
[22:31] How can society be a change agent when it comes to children’s mental health?
[31:13] Dr. Roseann’s wish
Resources Mentioned:
Standout Quotes from the Episode:
- “We’re very socially disconnected. Everybody wants to blame everything on technology.” [10:39]
- “It’s easier to change somebody’s religion than it is to change their diet” [12:50]
- “We’re in this elevated stress state all the time because our body knows no difference. Good or bad stress.” [14:54]
- “Kids really benefit from clear communication in advance. And that’s not you know, that’s helping them have problem-solving.” [27:48]
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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
What do you do when you are feeling outraged? Do you tantrum, hide out, or do you counter the anger with something affirming?
Today, Traci sits down with Karen Brailsford to talk about spiritual sustenance. If you have wondered how spirituality can help you cope with these intense times without floating away on a cloud of "avoiding the hard things", this episode is for you. Karen has a lot of information that you can borrow and apply in your day to day life.
Karen is a spiritual advisor. She’s affiliated with the Agape Center, but she’s also a long-time writer. She’s written for Newsweek, People, In Tough, and Entertainment. Her daughter is an actress; you may have seen her in The Hate You Give, Or Hunger Games, Amandla Stenberg.
Many of us think Hollywood is a corrupt place, and nothing good comes from there, but Karen has a different opinion. During her time as a journalist, she had a chance to interview all types of people you might outwardly judge and make assumptions about.
Are you ready to hear Karen ooze her heart-wise tools? Listen in...
Episode Milestones
[03:43] Karen’s history
[05:33] How does spirituality help us in the different landscapes of the soul?
[08:52] How can spirituality not be a tool to avoid but a tool to sustain our action?
[12:47] Karen’s remedy on burnout
[16:22] Making use of our anger to be of service to the divine
[20:53] Dealing with everything that’s happening around us with affirmation
[24:13] Why I’m I here, and how can I help?
[25:03] How Karen is helping her child remain spiritual even as she is part of Hollywood
[29:59] Why did Karen write the book? What did she hope to achieve?
[33:14] Karen’s gratitude
Resources Mentioned:
Sacred Landscapes of the Heart
Karen’s website
Standout Quotes from the Episode
- “I think that by connecting to these ways of creating these different hats that I wear that I’m expressing the divine, I’m expressing spirit, and that’s why I am here.” [04:29]
- “Pray and move your feet, pray and move.” [09:35]
- “Once we are taking care of what’s going on and coming up for us, then we can truly be a beneficial presence on the planet.” [10:16]
- “It’s always really humbling and empowering to realize that no matter what is happening, I have at my disposal these tools.”[15:10]
- “Hollywood itself is emblematic of the dichotomy that exists in the world at large.” [27:38]
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Given a chance to talk to your pre-adolescent self, what would you say to them considering all the information you have now?
In today’s show, Traci will be having a hearty conversation with Dr. Reis on loneliness, connection, and intimacy. This episode has nuggets of wisdom based on science for us all to take home.
Dr. Reis is a professor of psychology and Dean’s professor in art sciences and engineering. His research interests involve social interaction and close relationships. He studies the factors that influence our social interaction’s quality and closeness and the consequences of different socializing patterns for our health and psychological well-being. In his research, subjects keep detailed records of their ongoing social interaction. He tabulates them by computer, related to other various factors such as their sexual health and emotional well-being. He is an expert on loneliness and shares the findings of some of his research.
You can’t afford not to love this episode.
Episode Milestones
[02:45] Dr. Reis’s background and why he started research on intimacy and loneliness
[05:50] What would Dr. Reis say to his pre-adolescent self?
[07:11] What has surprised Dr. Reis the most in his study?
[08:33] Active listening as a skill
[10:49] Couple’s theories that excite Dr. Reis the most?
[12:34] What is loneliness, and where does it come from?
[19:01] Is loneliness getting worse, or are we tracking it more now?
[29:24] How can active listening be used to solve loneliness?
[33:26] Dr. Reis’s wish
Resources mentioned:
Standout Quotes:
- “I like to think about cell phones as fast food. If you’re hungry, and you go get yourself a Big Mac, you won’t be hungry, at least for a little while. But what you’re eating is not nutritious.” [20:47]
- “I don’t want people to get the idea that we’re saying that the way to avoid loneliness is to have deep, meaningful conversations all the time.” [24:31]
- “When you pay attention to what another person is saying, you can get insight into them. And interestingly enough, that makes it easy. For people to feel like the other person is paying attention to them.” [29:48]
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
How might sweeping shifts in both religion and medicine in the nineteenth-century impact a wide array of things we face today like loneliness and racism? When the mind began ruling over the body we saw society shift and loneliness, racism, and mental illness rise.
Dr. Fay Bound Alberti is a cultural historian, writer, and UKRI future leader’s fellow who studies the history of medicine and the human body. Her books include Matters of the Heart, The History of Medicine and Emotion, This Mortal Coil, the Human Body in History and Culture, A Biography of Loneliness The History of an Emotion.
Listen in as Dr. Bound Alberti finds a glimmer of hope in what feel like hopeless times. She pinpoints the exact moments in which we started to separate body, mind, and spirit and how it ushered in the world that we now have. She plants seeds of possibility that Covid-19 just might reconnect our bodies, minds, and spirits in a way that could usher in the social transformation that could end discrimination and loneliness and improve our health. The key, she says, is the body.
Episode Timeline:
- [00:09] Intro
- [01:21] Meet Dr. Fay Bound Alberti
- [03:16] -Emotions and relationships
- [04:32] History of Separating The Mind And The Body
- [07:14] The need for structural change and social change
- [13:45] Covid-19 Destigmatizing Loneliness
- [17:05] Shared meaning as a barrier against loneliness
- [22:20] Psychotherapy Being Limited By Insurers
- [23:16] -The body as the solution
- [23:52] Medicalized approaches to loneliness
- [30:35] Loneliness and prejudice
- [35:58] Dr. Fay Bound Alberti’s Wish To Listeners
- [37:43] - Outro
Resources Mentioned:
- Book: Matters of The Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion
- Book: This Mortal Coil: The Human Body In History and Culture
- Book: A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
- UKRI Future Leaders
Standout Quotes:
- Loneliness is being created and induced by our sensory experiences. [24:46] - Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti
- “Where people feel connected to others, either spiritually or even in a secular sense through environmentalism or movements or networks that make people feel imaginatively connected to some world outside of their own. I think that's that provides a barrier against loneliness.” [16:51] - Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti
- “One of the most important things for me about studying the history of medicine in the history of emotion is the ways in which some of the things that are entrenched in our society around racism, around sexism, around gender difference, they're rooted in what we think about the body, what we think about identity, what a person is capable of. And a lot of those ideas that were developed in the 19th century have not been sufficiently challenged.” [32:41] - Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Did you know that you can use your breath to activate your body and become more receptive? In this episode, Traci will have an in-depth conversation with Jamie on the breathing room and the power of a pause.
Jamie McHugh is a somatic movement specialist, a multidisciplinary artist, and a fine art photographer. He lives on the Mendocino coast of California. Listen in as Jamie shares his journey into becoming the person he is today, and he will give some essential pieces of information that we all can take home to make the world a better place for all of us.
Episode Timeline
[00:09] Intro
[01:01] Meet Jamie
[07:55] Traci’s first encounter with Jamie
[11:13] Jamie’s photography and how it is serving the community
[15:42] Grounding and centering
[19:55] The play impulse
[21:36] Reclaiming your birthright
[26:50] The mystery and power of breathing
[40:14] Reclaiming the breath for you and the world
[46:26] Jamie’s nuggets of Wisdom
[48:23] Outtro
Standout Quotes
- “ Let your consciousness really focus as much as you like. When you're ready to just let it wander, and that rhythm of condensing and expanding is, for me just part of the rhythm of life.”Jamie McHugh [13:22]
- “The planet is a creative process that is emerging and has so much variation. In a way, as human beings as members of the planet, not independent of the planet, but members of the planet, we have that same capacity to explore and experience all of these kinds of sensory-motor delights when we just give over to gravity.”-Jamie McHugh[18:19]
- “ There is more to us than our pain and suffering at any one moment.”- Jamie McHugh [23:25]
- “If you have at least 20 different ways to breathe, you can meet varying challenges.” -Jamie McHugh [27:22]
Resources Mentioned
Breathing Room Events With Jamie McHugh
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Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Growing up the child of two psychoanalysts, it wasn't much of a surprise when Dr. Elliot Gann succeeded at becoming a well trained clinical psychoanalyst himself. However, his ability to combine his passion for producing music and making beats with his skills as a therapist, did come as a surprise— particularly for parents who had never considered the magic it could work in the lives of their children.
Today, Elliot sits down with Traci to talk about beatmaking therapy and the work done by his organization, Today’s Future Sound. He shares the motivation behind his work and some impactful moments from his time working with students.
Listen in as they get candid about leading a non-profit organization and more. Hear how Elliot is taking an unconventional approach to create space for children and adults alike while achieving personal fulfillment.
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Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
What could trust-building mean for creating lasting change? —Today’s guest and Stanford University instructor, Dr. Laura Delizonna, has some insights on the subject that will inspire and ignite you.
An international speaker, executive coach and author, Dr. Delizonna’s work on emotional intelligence and her partnership with Google sprouted non-profit SIYLI has been used by leaders around the globe.
Hear her thoughts on overcoming implicit biases, building relationships through conflict, and creating work environments where people can thrive. She shares her passion for people, connection, and science as she expertly navigates the questions we’re all wondering about connection and meaningful leadership.
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Bio:
Laura Delizonna, PhD
As a Stanford University instructor, international speaker, and executive coach, Delizonna works with leaders to achieve their potential and lead teams to breakthrough innovation. She equips leaders with practical tools to elevate team performance and shape their company’s culture. She consults and conducts customized trainings at top companies such as Google, Facebook, Disney, McKinsey & Co., and Uber. She specializes in practical trainings to elevate skill sets such as leadership effectiveness, psychological safety, resilience, and team performance. She’s taught at Stanford Continuing Studies for 14 years.
Delizonna authored four books including Enhancing Emotional Intelligence, Mindful Leaders, Thrive, and Mindful. Her award winning article on high performing teams was published in Harvard Business Review and has had over half a million views. She was trained at Harvard, Boston University, and Stanford.
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
How is mental health affected by racial trauma?
In today’s episode Sidewalk Talk, guest and consultant Dr. Jennifer Mullan, talks race, oppression and systemic inequality. Traci and Dr. Mullan explore what the process of healing from ongoing trauma might look like for black, brown, queer and indigenous people and how we can all work to create space and help to mitigate privelage as therapists, allies and friends.
Getting comfortable with discomfort, they share the importance of acknowledging privilege and highlight the multitude of ways it can show up in our interactions and attempts at connection. Find out how you can start showing up with the right tools to contribute towards meaningful change as you gain a better understanding of history, race, politics and inequities in America.
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